Improvement in waist-belts



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE..

MYRON H. CHAIIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN wAlsT-BEL-rs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,133., dated October20, 1874; application filed i September 10, 1871..

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MYRON H. GHAPIN, of thecity and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in ElasticBelts, of which the following is a specification:

Waist-belts for ladies and children, and garters, have been made of anelastic fabric having longitudinal cords of indiarubber introduced amongthe warps, and secured by the weft-threads in weaving the fabric. Thesebelts are not handsome in appearance, and when the elastic cords areinclosed with silk Warps and weft-threads the same is very expensive. Myinvention is made for rendering the belt or garter ornamental, and atthe same time protecting the elastic from wear, and from undue strain,so as to make the belt more durable and handsome.

I make use of a flat tubular covering of woven fabric for the elasticband or belt, such covering being free from the elastic band eX- cept ator near the ends where the buckles or clasps are applied. rlhis tubularcovering is made of a folded strip sewed together length- Wise near theedges, and then turned inside out and the elastic band drawn into thesame. The length of the tubular covering is such, in comparison to thatof the elastic, that the elastic cannot be distended to such an extentas to injure the saine; and, as the elastic coutracts, the fabric of thetube is shirred or gathered into narrow flutes or plaits; and theserender the belt much more handsome,

especially when worn around the waist, than the ordinary elasticfabrics, especially so as silk, satin, and other handsome fabrics can beused; and the tube protects the elastic from perspiration and wear, andwhen one tube is worn out another can be substituted. This elastic beltor band, inclosed in a separate tubular covering of woven material, is anew and useful article of manufacture.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective Yview of the belt and buckleor clasp 5 and Fig.

2 is a section of the elastic fabric a. and the tubular covering b ofwoven fabric, with the edges united by the seam c to form such separateinclosing ornamental covering.

I am aware that rubber tubes covered with a Woven or a braided fabrichave been used around the Waist, and that elastic bands have beeninserted into the fabrics of garments. Neither of these is adapted touse as au ornamental waist-belt.

I claim as my invention- The ornamental waist-belt composed of a fiatelastic band and a separate-tube of silk or other ornamental wovenfabric, combined and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

Signed by me this 7th day of September, 1874.

MYRON H. CHAPIN.

Witnesses GHAs. H. SMITH, HAROLD SERRELL.

